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Emergency workers share lessons from Graniteville disaster
(The following article by Georgiana Stark was posted on the Virginian-Pilot website on October 13.) NORFOLK, Va. -- Plumes of thick smoke billowed out of a mangled heap of twisted black metal. A white car lay crushed under a fallen tree. Railroad cars were tossed on...
Amtrak board backs plan for Northeast Corridor
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on October 12.) WASHINGTON -- The Amtrak board has approved an essential step in the Bush administration plan to break up the railroad, voting to carve out the Northeast Corridor, the...
CSX derailment snarls service in N.Y.
(The following article by Mike Goodwin and Cathy Woodruff was posted on the Albany Times-Union website on October 13.) AMSTERDAM, N.Y. -- A CSX freight train derailed in this city's downtown Wednesday morning, sending 18 cars off the tracks including one that landed...
Firm sells wood from historic trestle
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 12.) BLACKFOOT, Idaho -- More than a century after Southern Pacific Railroad's 12-mile Lucin Cutoff wooden trestle conquered the Great Salt Lake, and more than a decade after it was dismantled, it...
Katrina damage reroutes shuttle booster rail trips
(The following article by Todd Halvorson was posted on the Florida Today website on October 12.) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Segments of the shuttle's solid-rocket boosters are being rerouted to and from their Utah manufacturing plant because of railway damage done by...
LIRR trains to get cleaner sweep in ’06
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell was posted on the Newsday website on October 12.) NEW YORK -- The Long Island Rail Road will restore some of its cleaning budget next year after hearing from unhappy riders who said the trains were unclean and uncomfortable,...
NJ Transit envisions upscale revival for Hoboken Terminal
(The following article by Ron Marsico was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on October 12.) NEWARK, N.J. -- For decades, the exterior of the nearly century-old Hoboken Terminal has continued to deteriorate, leaving an eyesore amid the New Jersey waterfront's...
End of the line for Princeton’s Dinky?
(The following article by Linda Stein was posted on the Trenton Times website on October 11.) PRINCETON BOROUGH, N.J. -- At this town's charming stone train station, commuters board the Dinky electrified train for its four-minute trek to nearby Princeton Junction,...
Canadian National: The making of a track star
(The following article was posted on the Business Week website on October 12.) CHICAGO -- As hurricane Katrina was hurtling toward New Orleans, E. Hunter Harrison was overseeing Canadian National Railway Co.'s emergency preparations from his home in suburban Chicago....
Makeshift courthouse set up in New Orleans Amtrak station
(The following article by David Heinzmann was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on October 12.) NEW ORLEANS -- On the second floor of the shabby Amtrak station, in a cavernous old room with missing ceiling tiles and dingy green paint, a handful of tired but...
